TABLE OF CONTENTS
1933
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I Address before the Governing Board of the Pan American
Union, April 12, 1933 ....................................... 1
II Message to the nations of the World, May 16, 1933 ........... 3
1935
III Statement on approval of the Neutrality Act of 1935,
August 31, 1935 ............................................. 7
IV Address on Armistice Day, November 11, 1935 ................. 8
1936
V Address at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936
(the "I hate war" speech) ................................... 11
VI Address before the Inter-American Conference for the
Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
December 1, 1936 ............................................ 16
1937
VII Address at Chicago, Ill., October 5, 1937
(the "quarantine" speech.) ................................... 21
1938
VIII Message to the Congress recommending increased armament
for national defense, January 28, 1938 ...................... 25
IX Address at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
August 18, 1938 ............................................. 27
X Message sent direct by the President of the United States to
the President of Czechoslovakia and to the Chancellor of the
German Reich, and through the Secretary of State to the
Prime Ministers of Great Britain and France, morning of
September 26, 1938 .......................................... 30
1939
XI Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1939 ............. 32
XII Letter to the Chancellor of the German Reich,
April 14, 1939 .............................................. 40
XIII Address to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union,
April 14, 1939 .............................................. 43
XIV Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of
Representatives recommending revision of the neutrality law,
September 21, 1939 .......................................... 47
1940
XV Address by radio to the Eighth Pan American Scientific
Congress, May 10, 1940 ...................................... 54
XVI Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of
Representatives asking additional appropriations for national
defense, May 16, 1940 ....................................... 57
XVII Address at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.,
June 10, 1940 ............................................... 62
XVIII Message to the Congress recommending additional
appropriations for national defense, July 10, 1940 .......... 66
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1940
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XIX Message to the Congress informing them of the exchange of
certain over-age destroyers for British naval and air bases
September 3, 1940 ........................................... 70
XX Address to the registrants under the selective-service law
October 16, 1940 ............................................ 71
XXI Fireside Chat on National Security and the Common Cause
("Arsenal of Democracy" speech), December 29, 1940 ......... 73
1941
XXII Annual message to the Congress ("Four Freedoms" speech),
January 6, 1941 ............................................. 81
XXIII Third Inaugural Address, January 20, 1941 ................... 88
XXIV Address at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner
Washington D. C., March 15, 1941 ............................ 91
XXV Address over the radio in celebration of Jackson Day, Fort
Lauderdale Fla., April 1, 1941 .............................. 97
XXVI Address before the Governing Board of the Pan American
Union, May 27, 1941 ......................................... 101
XXVII Message to the Congress relating to the dispatch of naval
forces to Iceland, July 7, 1941 ............................. 110
XXVIII Joint statement of the President of the United States and the
Prime Minister of Great Britain ("The Atlantic Charter")
August 14, 1941 ............................................. 112
XXIX Address over the radio concerning the attack upon the
destroyer Greer, September 11, 1941 ......................... 114
XXX Address over the radio on Navy Day concerning the attack upon
the destroyer Kearny, October 27, 1941 ...................... 120
XXXI Address before a joint session of the Senate and House of
Representatives asking for the declaration of the existence
of a state of war with the Japanese Empire,
December 8, 1941 ............................................ 125
XXXII Address over the radio following the declaration of a state
of war with the Japanese Empire, December 9, 1941 ........... 127
XXXIII Message to the Congress requesting the recognition of a state
of war with Germany and Italy, December 11, 1941 ............ 133
XXXIV Address over the radio on the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the adoption of the American Bill of Rights,
December 15, 1941 ........................................... 134
1942
XXXV Annual Message to the Congress, January 6, 1942 ............. 136
XXXVI Address over the radio in celebration of Washington's
Birthday, February 23, 1942 ................................. 143